I read with some bemusement the excellent review article “Effective population-wide public health interventions to promote sodium reduction.” 1 While the authors are to be commended on their broad overall perspective, a cynical person might suggest that they might temper their enthusiasm by visiting any of our local supermarkets. If the goal is to truly try to limit sodium consumption to 1200–1500 mg a day as well as having no single food item contain more than 10% of the daily total, they are certainly going to be hard-pressed shoppers. I would submit that until industry really get serious about stopping the almost universal harmful addition of excess sodium to commercial foodstuffs (or the government actually does something), excellent articles like Dr. Mohan’s will amount to little more than wishful thinking.
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